I'm not Ubuntu's biggest fan, but they are doing the right thing here. The SI units are defined as powers of 10, not 2, so using k to represent 1024 is corrupting a standard. The current situation, where some use binary and some use decimal units is confusing. To take Nordle's currency analogy, it like some quoting prices with VAT and some without, but not telling you which.

If you want to represent 1024, use the correct prefix, kibi, kilo has been defined as 1000 for hundreds of years. The confusion only arises because this situation was allowed to continue for far too long. All power to Ubuntu for taking a stand on this.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

Because that's what SI metric units have been defined in for hundreds of years. kilo has meant 100 since Adam was a lad, why corrupt it to mean something else because you can't be bothered to think up your own prefix?

How would you feel if your employer decided to make an hour 66 minutes, but still expect you to work the same number of hours for the same pay? What time would you turn up when someone said "see you in half an hour"?

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

kilo = 1000 since the late 1600's but if you want to start your own measuring system that's fine

It will just bring storage into line with manufactures' hard drive specifications. Computers have used binary because early computers with valves, and still do today, use electricity to represent everything as on or off. Perhaps this is getting ready for quantum computing